Vive la revolucion?
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Cuba has achieved first-world levels of education and trained a skilled scientific workforce, despite suffering years of deprivation of US sanctions, and an economic disaster since the collapse of the Soviet Union. However, this had harsh consequences for scientists who were restricted to work in other countries, a freedom that academics in many other nations take for granted.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2005
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Scientists are returning from industry to academia with an eye on efficiency and applied science
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A large number of scientists are returning to academia from industry to explore basic science questions that they could not forget. Their experience in applied product-driven science brings new attitudes and approaches to the academic world of hypothesis driven research and scientific training.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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Follow your nose
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Various careers and opportunities are highlighted for students in China with science background. Scientists should be flexible enough during their training and throughout their careers, and open to new opportunities.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 2004
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